Lawrence S. Wittner

Professor

Ph.D., Columbia University
M.A., University of Wisconsin
A.B., Columbia College

060P Social Sciences
Department of History
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, New York 12222

Phone: (518) 442-5441
Fax: (518) 442-5301

wittner@albany.edu

Teaching:
Undergraduate Courses:
His 311: History of American Foreign Policy I
His 312: History of American Foreign Policy II
His 325: The Quest for Equality in U.S. History

Graduate Courses:
His 603Q: History of U.S. Social Movements
His 609Q/634R: Seminar in American and International History

Select Publications:
One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953. (Volume 1 of The Struggle Against the Bomb.) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. Paperback edition, 1995.

Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970. (Volume 2 of The Struggle Against the Bomb.) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. Paperback edition, 1997.

Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present. (Volume 3 of The Struggle Against the Bomb.) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Paperback edition, 2003.

Co-Executive Editor, Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, 1984-1987.

Awards/Honors:
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1980-1981

American Council of Learned Societies/Ford Fellowship, 1987-1988

Aspen Institute, Nonprofit Sector Research Fund research grant, 1998-1999

United States Institute of Peace, Jennings Randolph Program Senior Fellowship, 2002

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Program on Global Security and Sustainability, Research and Writing Grant, 2002

Council on Peace Research in History (now the Peace History Society), Charles DeBenedetti prize (for the article "Peace Movements and Foreign Policy"), 1989

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Warren F. Kuehl prize (for the book One World or None), 1995

Current Research and Teaching Interests:
Throughout my career, I have researched and written on the history of U.S. foreign policy, international history, and the history of peace movements. In recent years, I have written about the impact of the worldwide nuclear disarmament movement upon nuclear weapons policies. Given these areas of expertise, I teach courses dealing with the history of U.S. foreign policy, international history, and the history of U.S. social movements.

Full Curriculum Vitae

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